The wages of sin is death but so is the salary of virtue, and at least the evil get to go home early on Fridays.

A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost.

Learnin’ how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them.

After a while, another voice said: One, two, three, four- And the universe came into being. It was wrong to call it a big bang. That would just be noise, and all that noise could create is more noise and a cosmos full of random particles. Matter exploded into being, apparently as chaos, but in fact as a chord. The ultimate power chord.

Granny sighed. "You have learned something," she said, and thought it safe to insert a touch of sternness into her voice. "They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.

And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us to become his moral superior.

If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.